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"It was fearful. I've never experienced such violence in Tel Aviv in a leftist demonstration."
--Rotem Bin Nun, 38, said after right-wingers beat left-wingers protesting the military operation against Gaza.**

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86.
--Number of Palestinians killed in first three days of Operation Protective Edge.**

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53.

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"And maybe, just maybe, the despair that has ruled us in recent years is also partly the despair of the doomed, who understand by now that there is no way to avoid punishment for their deeds, or for what they allowed to happen through their support, or their silence, or their apathy, so therefore – Why not eat, drink and make merry while one still can?"
--Israeli author (and moral guide) David Grossman examines why Israel has not been able to make peace.**

I want to apologize for the unforgivable.
For the boy whose face in the photograph I can see even with my eyes closed. The face of the boy before he was wrestled into a car by people on my side, who charred him to death.

--Haaretz columnist Bradley Burston writes an apology to the Palestinians 'for the unforgivable, for the unfathomable, and for all those on my side who never will.'**

"This is a shocking murder, barbaric and sadistic, a brutal terrorist attack, and a provocation to the state. Woe to us if the appetite for revenge replaces the state and the institutions of the rule of law and order. All those busy stirring up passions and giving legitimacy to vendettas should remember that also their hands will be stained with blood."
--Labor MK Shelly Yechimovitz said after the news that the six people suspected of killing an innocent Palestinian teenager by burning him alive were Jews.**

"The tragedy of the innocent boys murdered by terrorists will haunt us for a long time. But it will not destroy us. Jewish revenge killings will."
 -- Rabbi Daniel Landes, Director of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, on the kidnapping, burning and murder of 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khdeir, from E. Jerusalem.**